1922 VFL Grand Final

1922 VFL Grand Final
9.14 (68)	11.13 (79)
Date	21 October 1922
Stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
Attendance	50,064

The 1922 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Fitzroy Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 21 October 1922. It was the 26th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1922 VFL season.

The half-time break was more than thirty minutes.[1]

The match, attended by 50,064 spectators, was won by Fitzroy by a margin of 11 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory.

Score

Team	1	2	3	Final
Fitzroy	2.5	3.6	9.10	11.13 (79)
Collingwood	2.3	4.5	7.7	9.14 (68)

Teams

Fitzroy

Collingwood

Fitzroy
B:	Jim Atkinson	Horrie Jenkin	Bert Taylor
HB:	Chris Lethbridge (c)	Stan Molan	Ern Elliot
C:	Clarrie Sherry	Tommy Corrigan	Fred Williams
HF:	Percy Parratt	Steve Donnellan	Gordon Rattray
F:	Len Wigraft	Jimmy Freake	Len Gale
Foll:	Gordon McCracken	Goldie Collins	Clive Fergie
Res:
Coach:	Vic Belcher

Collingwood
B:	Ernie Wilson	Harry Saunders	Laurie Murphy
HB:	Charlie Tyson	Charlie Brown	Bill Twomey
C:	Tom Drummond (c)	Charlie Pannam	Leo Wescott
HF:	Harry Chesswas	Syd Coventry	Gordon Coventry
F:	Eric Cock	Dick Lee	Ted Baker
Foll:	Percy Rowe	Maurie Sheehy	Reynolds Webb
Res:
Coach:	Jock McHale

Umpire - Jack Elder

Statistics

Fitzroy FC, Premiers

Goalkickers

Fitzroy:

J Freake 4
P Parratt 3
C Fergie 1
G McCracken 1
L Wigraft 1
F Williams 1

Collingwood:

G Coventry 3
S Coventry 2
D Lee 2
T Baker 1
T Drummond 1

Footnotes

The Argus, 16 October 1922.

Fitzroy Football Club 1922 VFL premiers
Fitzroy 11.13 (79) defeated Collingwood 9.14 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
2. Molan 3. Fergie 4. Jenkin 5. Elliott 6. Gale 7. Rattray 8. Taylor 9. Freake 10. Wigraft 12. Lethbridge (c) 16. Williams 17. Atkinson 18. Sherry 24. McCracken 27. Corrigan 28. Donnellan 29. Collins 30. Parratt
Coach: Belcher

Collingwood Football Club
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